Kevin Simler
Writer of the Melting Asphalt essays; co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
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- Kevin Simler is a writer and software engineer.
- He started the blog Melting Asphalt in 2012, essays on philosophy, human behaviour and occasionally software.
- He spent seven years at Palantir Technologies as an engineer, engineering manager and product designer.
- With Robin Hanson he wrote The Elephant in the Brain (2018), about hidden motives in everyday life.
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- Education
- Philosophy and computer science, UC Berkeley (2004); left a PhD in computational linguistics at MIT in 20061
- Palantir
- Engineer, engineering manager and product designer for seven years, joining in 20061
- Melting Asphalt
- Blog he started in 2012; more than 300,000 words by his own 2020 count1
- Book
- The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (2018), with Robin Hanson2
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